Epstein Secrets

e quantization of gravity. Thus we both illustrate and transcend, rather than contradict, the arguments of [2). Acknowledgments We are grateful to Freeman Dyson for stimulating our interest in this question and to the organizers of the 90th birthday celebration for Dyson at the NTU in Singapore, where he lec

ngapore, where he lectured on this subject. We also thank Andrew Long, Subir $abharwal, Tannery Vachaspati for useful discussions and Freeman Dyson, Steve Weinberg and Ed Witten for comments on early drafts of this manuscript. LMK is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy at ASU, and also by Australian Nat

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r, Wendy Freedman, Craig Venter, Ian McEwan, Neal Stephenson, Svante Paabo, Werner Herzog, and Cormac McCarthy, as well as Nobel Laureates including Steven Weinberg, David Gross, Frank Wilczek, Sidney Altman, Lee Hartwell, Sheldon Glashow, Baruch Blumberg, Adam Reiss, Brian Schmidt, and John Mather. I got to k

was short-range? These problems continued to suggest to some that quantum field theory was the wrong approach for understanding the strong force. Freeman Dyson, who had played such an important role in the develop- ment of the first successful quantum field theory, quantum electrody- namics, asserted, when d

r time, or so most physi- cists thought. One of the many people who were fascinated by the physics of the strong interaction was the young theorist Steven Weinberg. There is po- etry here as well. Weinberg grew up in New York City and attended the Bronx High School of Science, from which he graduated in 195o.